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I write to address the erroneous perceptions or outright misrepresentations that continue to appear in comments and letters about the role of the Rappahannock Historical Society in the pending applications for seven personal wireless antenna facilities or cell towers in the County.
The Rappahannock Historical Society is neither for nor against personal wireless facilities in the County. However, we do believe that any application for a facility in the County must include the review of historic properties mandated by law before it should be acted upon by the Planning Commission or the Board of Supervisors.
The National Historic Preservation Act and its implementing regulations provide that an historic review must be a part of an application involved in any federal undertaking when it has “the potential to cause effects on historic properties”. The Sprint applications are federal undertakings because the construction and operation of the proposed facilities must be licensed by the Federal Communications Commission.
What is this historic review and how is it accomplished? As an application proceeds at the local level, the FCC looks to a state’s historic preservation officer (for us, it is the Virginia Department of Historic Resources) and the public in the affected area. Where there is particular knowledge, experi
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